ABA Committee Reports
By-Laws
There were no no issues presented for consideration. Anyone with ideas or concerns should contact Doug so they can be addressed and considered for presentation.
Hall of Fame
Packets were distributed during the Business Meeting with the criteria and information on how to nominate one of your club members for consideration as an inductee to ABA Hall of Fame. The committee has received nominations in the past that contained 12 pages and even though it was impressive, this does not add to the likeihood of winning the nomination. Two or three pages should be sufficient. A picture is required to help the committee know the persons they will be considering, as so many of us recognize a face before a name. The candidate must be nominated by their home club and the candidate should also be contributing to the well being of the ABA. Only 4 clubs presented candidates for consideration in 2007.
Myra’s hope is that every club presents candidates for consideration.
Gary announced at the Annual ABA Business Meeting that the ABA Hall of Fame banner disappeared. He asked that if anyone was aware of its location to let him know. In the meantime he asked the board to approve the expense to make another. Jim Watson volunteered to recreate it. A small discussion took place and a motion was made by Doug Brown and 2nd by George Martial to spend up to $75.00 for this project and to have Jim Watson perform the work. Everyone was in favor and the motion passed.
Membership
The ABA had successfully met the goals of last years meeting to eliminate “associate member club” status and to have only “regular membership” status –
- Seattle Swing Dance Club converted to regular membership.
- Magic City Bop Club
- St. Charles Imperial Dance Club
- Lake of the Ozarks, new to the ABA
- National Association of Rhythm & Blues Dee Jay’s
- Toe to Toe Dance Shoes
A Colorado Club showed interest and was sent a membership packet.
During the ABA meeting, it was also reported that Memphis Boogie Bunch had disbanded and did not renewed; the Nashville BeBop Association chose not to convert to Regular Member status and also did not renew.
At the request of the directors at the meeting, Paul stated the criteria used to determine a club worthiness for membership and explained the need for by-laws, “non (or not for) profit” status, officers, and to show the club holds regularly scheduled dances.
Gary requested a web based membership packet explaining how to form a dance club. This packet would be added to the ABA Web Site and should available soon.
ABA Website
Gary introduced the ABA’ new Webmaster, Sue Hurst, a member of South Side Imperial Dance Club. Before turning the floor over to Sue, Gary acknowledged Rich Kopels for his hard work and excellent job on the development and maintenance of our website. Sue urged the members of the board to keep their information current. She stated that she will do her best to continue to produce a quality web site of which the ABA will be proud.
ABA Newsletter
The next newsletter is June 1st. Please have your articles and pictures, with captions, by the weekend before.
ABA continues to send about 36 printed copies of the newsletter to individual clubs, directors, and Hall of Fame members at a cost of about $3.50 each.
The newsletter depends upon articles from member clubs. Some months there are several articles submitted while other months there is nary a one. To help with the “lean” quarters, clubs are requested to provide the names and emails of their clubs’ newsletter editors.
Music Licensing
No report
ABA Financial Annual Report for 2007
| Beginning Balance 1/1/2007 | $25,650.35 | |||
| Income | Expense | |||
| ABA Convention Rebate “MATR”(741.00) – “ROTR”(1,000.00) |
1,741.00 | ABA Convention Hospitality | 1,250.00 | |
| Music Licensing | 909.38 | Music Licensing ASCAP(593.70) – BMI(130.00) – SESAC(350.00) |
1,073.70 | |
| ABA Cruise Rebate | 4,552.56 | Hall of Fame | 659.52 | |
| Membership Dues | 3,850.00 | Hall of Fame Chairman Expense | 180.62 | |
| Miscellaneous: Convention Rebate Donated to ABA Derby City(174.00) – JBBA(33.00) – MBC(9.00) |
216.00 | President's Travel Expense | 601.61 | |
| Postage, copies, & supplies | 318.74 | |||
| ABA Business Meeting | 439.42 | |||
| ABA Newsletter | 620.28 | |||
| Miscellaneous: Corporation Annaul Report(20.00) – George Baer Award(65.51) |
85.51 | |||
| Total Income | 11,268.94 | Total Expenses | 5,229.40 | |
| Ending Balance | $31,689.89 | |||
| Income Vs. Expenses | (+6,039.54) | |||
